The Best Cookbooks of Spring 2025

We’re Living in the Age of the Culinary ‘-Ish’

Ted Cavanaugh This piece originally appeared in SAVEUR’s Spring/Summer 2025 issue. See more stories from Issue 204 here. In her debut book, My (Half) Latinx Kitchen, the Ecuadorian Korean American author Kiera Wright-Ruiz makes a powerful dedication “to anyone who has ever had to check off the ‘other’ box.” Wright-Ruiz treats her cookbook as a “culinary genealogy project,” she says, with recipes that reflect both the family she was born into and…

The Best Cookbooks of Spring 2025

At home, our editors are cooking their way through new spring books like Salt Sugar MSG, Third Culture Cooking, Fat + Flour, and more.